PROTECTING MUSKOKA will be your LEGACY!
ONCE DEVELOPED, NEVER THE SAME!
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YOUR APPEAL WILL BE HEARD at the Ontario Land Tribunal on September 19, 2022 

Thank you to all who sent in a Participant Statements that were considered at the Case Management Conference of September 22, 2021 and January 26, 2022.  You can read the decisions by each of the tribunal members here:

September 22, 2021 Case Management Conference
January 26, 2022 Case Management Conference

The hearing will begin on Monday, September 19, 2022 at 10 a.m. by video hearing. 
Please download the GO TO MEETING APP ahead of time or you may join in using your browser. 
Parties and Participants are asked to log into the video hearing at least 15 minutes before the start of the event to test their video and audio connections.

Public may access the video hearing at this link:

https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/709173309

Audio-only telephone line: Toll Free 1-888-299-1889 or +1 (647) 497-9373
Access Code: 709-173-309

Should the current COVID-19 public health and safety measures restricting public gatherings be lifted in the future, the Parties may request the hearing be held in-person in the municipality of the Town of Bracebridge.  A Party must bring any such request at least 60 days prior to the start of the hearing.
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The length of the hearing will be 23 days. The length of the hearing may be shortened as issues are reordered as settlement is achieved.

​THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT IN PROTECTING MUSKOKA's NATURAL HERITAGE. 

Bracebridge's wetlands 

NATURAL SOLUTION, FIRST LINE OF PROTECTION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE

The importance of wetlands is often overlooked.
Wetlands help to:
  • Control flooding
  • Provide habitat for wildlife
  • Act as a pollution filter protecting our water quality 
  • Absorb carbon to help us fight climate change

Threatened by development

ONTARIO WETLANDS EVALUATION NEEDED

The wetlands of South Bracebridge are currently threatened by a proposed development. This land is suspected to be a provincially significant and complex wetland, but has never been evaluated in order to receive this official classification. 

You asked the Town of Bracebridge to require an Ontario Wetlands Evaluation to determine if the subject wetlands should be protected as significant wetlands.  They denied this request and we appealed on your behalf.

​We can't put wetlands back after they have been destroyed.
​Let's take the time to do this right. 
​"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead